Not so much did Dan Orpheus represse 180 The streames of Hebrus with his songs, I weene, As that faire troupe of woodie goddesses Staied thee, O Peneus, powring foorth to thee, From cheereful lookes, great mirth and gladsome glee.

Peneus, iii; v. Penthesilee, ii. Peridue, ii. Perigot, iv.

I have hope that when the folk of Ephyra pour forth my sweet strains by Peneus' side, yet more glorious shall I make their Hippokleas for his crowns and by my songs among his fellows and his elders, and I will make him possess the minds of the young maidens.

Know that once on a time, as Daphne, the lovely daughter of Peneus, was amusing herself with a bow and arrows in a forest of Thessaly, she was surprised by a rude musician named Phoebus.

The views on the Downs, above the Hot Wells, are infinitely varied and delightful, and glimpses constantly occur of the Avon "Winding like cragged Peneus, through his foliaged vale," while "ocean fragrance" is wafted around.

In the story of Palamon and Arcite, where the temple of Diana is described, you find these verses in all the editions of our author: "There saw I Danè turned into a tree, I mean not the goddess Diane, But Venus' daughter, which that hight Danè:" Which, after a little consideration, I knew was to be reformed into this sense, that Daphne, the daughter of Peneus, was turned into a tree.

Daphne spent the most of her time in the fields and woods, with the birds and blossoms and trees; and she liked best of all to wander along the banks of the River Peneus, and listen to the ripple of the water as it flowed among the reeds or over the shining pebbles.

" The river smiled and answered her in a way which she alone could understand; and always, after that, she called it "Father Peneus.

She passed through a shady wood and climbed a hill, from the top of which she could see Father Peneus lying white and clear and smiling in the valley below.

"Good-by, Father Peneus," she said.

She stretched out her arms and cried: "O Father Peneus, save me!"

Does Father Peneus turn you into a tree to keep you from me?" Whether Daphne had really been turned into a tree, I know not; nor does it matter nowit was so long ago.

As for the horse, he wandered away across the plains towards the north and found a home at last in distant Thessaly beyond the River Peneus.

Speaking without disrespect to the poet Shelley"here he lifted his hat and replaced it"a new Peneus does not roll his fountains against the morning star, whatever that preciseeroperation may have been.

" AUGE`AS, a legendary king of Elis, in Greece, and one of the Argonauts; had a stable with 3000 oxen, that had not been cleaned out for 30 years, but was cleansed by Hercules turning the rivers Peneus and Alpheus through it; the act a symbol of the worthless lumber a reformer must sweep away before his work can begin, the work of reformation proper.

THE FOUNTAIN REVISITED. Let the classic pilgrim rove, By Egeria's fount to stand, Or sit in Vancluse's grot of love, Afar from his native land; Let him drink of the crystal tides Of the far-famed Hippocrene, Or list to the waves where Peneus glides His storied mounts between: But dearer than aught 'neath a foreign sky Is the fount of my native dell, It has fairer charms for my musing eye For my heart a deeper spell.